I'm not sure what's making your friends leave. I can see why you wouldn't want to stay after that, multiplayer games get very dull without friends. I can also see you're still in rant-mode, so you're not getting your facts straight.
There are still going to be changes to the changes. Back when they locked the Tiers on all the gates and forced players to do T1, then T2 before T3 on every gate they received massive feedback and changed it back. You still need to do T1 and T2 in general, but you don't need to grind your way up on every gate anymore. I'm confident the same will happen now: they made a harsh patch, they can still weaken it. :) Hopefully by undoing the binding of equipment, at least equipment not acquired by tokens.
1. Eurydice, community manager, is hired.
Eurydice has been working for OOO for years and years now.
I'm not sure what's making your friends leave. I can see why you wouldn't want to stay after that, multiplayer games get very dull without friends. I can also see you're still in rant-mode, so you're not getting your facts straight.
There are still going to be changes to the changes. Back when they locked the Tiers on all the gates and forced players to do T1, then T2 before T3 on every gate they received massive feedback and changed it back. You still need to do T1 and T2 in general, but you don't need to grind your way up on every gate anymore. I'm confident the same will happen now: they made a harsh patch, they can still weaken it. :) Hopefully by undoing the binding of equipment, at least equipment not acquired by tokens.